liz sidoti, jackie kucinich and ramesh ponnuru and let's talk about this piece. a very interesting thing from "the new york times." it said, quote, how bill clinton may have hurt the obama campaign. saying, quote, the white house had been portraying mr. romney as inauthentic and inconstant, a soulless climber who would say anything to get the job, but it was mr. clinton who forcibly argued to mr. obama's aides that the campaign had it wrong, the best way to go after mitt romney the former president said was to publicly grant that he was a severe conservative he claimed to be and then hang the unpopular ideology around his neck. does this work, liz? >> look, if bill clinton hurt the campaign at all at any point in this race, he has certainly helped the campaign in the homestretch. what you're seeing is a guy who laid out an economic argument arguably better than the president did during the convention and has hit the campaign trail in pivotal areas to turn out working class whites. we're going to see obama and the president campaign together early next week. if bi